From: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o) Subject: Re: TSX-11 suggestions/questions? Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 18:00:36 GMT
From: aliu@usc.edu (Alex C. Liu)
Date: 9 Sep 92 06:24:43 GMT
I was just wondering what is the best way to submit things to
tsx-11? Do you just ftp it to incoming? Or do we have to send e-mail
to somebody special?
Well, if you ftp to tsx-11 and cd /incoming, you will receive the
following message, which I hope is self-explanatory; if you have any
questions, please send them to me or to ftp-linux:
ftp> cd incoming
250-You have reached the incoming directory. Files which are deposited here
250-will not be accessible until an FTP administrator moves it to the proper
250-place in the FTP archive.
250-
250-To speed this process, please send mail to ftp-linux@tsx-11.mit.edu with
250-a description of which files you have uploaded, what they do, what
250-version of the software you've uploaded, etc.
250-
250-If possible please bundle uploads into a source tar file, and a binary
250-tar file --- and make sure that documentation and any other additional
250-files required to use the program are included in both the source and
250-binary tar files.
250-
250-When you send mail to ftp-linux@tsx-11.mit.edu, please make our life
250-easier: if you have just uploaded yet another "zoo" archiver, and we
250-already have a "zoo" archiver in our archives, tell us *why* your
250-package is superior --- whether it's more recent, a better port, a
250-more featureful implmentation by a different author, and so on.
250-
250-Thanks!
250-
Also, would it possible to grep things in the mail archive
trough FTP? I mean, sometimes I want to look for something in
particular, and going to the mail-archives and getting EVERYTHING just
to find some file in particular is wasteful and time consuming. What
it would be nice is to be able to somehow grep for a string in the
mail archive directory. Is that possible?
I think someone has set up a WAIS server in Germany so you can do
keyword lookups on the mail (that is comp.os.linux) archive. I don't
remember the details, though, and I don't know if it is still being kept
up to date. Can someone post the details if they have them? Thanks!
- Ted